WBC Disorders IV Flashcards
most common cancer of children
acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma
B-ALLs
children - age 3 peak
t(12;21)
B-ALL
T-ALLs
adolescents peak
-thymic
GOF mutation NOTCH1
T-ALL
TdT positive
ALLs
-B and T cell
TdT, CD19, CD10, CD20
B-ALL
TdT, CD1, CD2, CD5, CD7, CD3, CD4
T-ALL
ALL
more in boys and whites
hyperdiploidy
90% of ALLs
more common ALL
B-ALL
B-ALL prognosis
aggressive
T-ALL prognosis
aggressive
pancytopenia
B-ALL
thymic mass and bone marrow involvement
T-ALL
ALL clinical
abrupt, stormy onset
- fatigue, fever, bleeding
- anemia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia
mass effects - bone pain, lymphademopathy, splenomegaly, hepatomeglay
testicular enlargement
ALL
compression of SVC and airways
T-ALL
CNS manifestations
ALL
ALL and AML
very similar clinically
-immunophenotypically distinct
abrupt onset
fever, infection, bleeding
mass effects (more ALL)
CNS sx (more ALL)
most common cause of cancer death in children
ALL
favorable ALL prognosis
age 2-10 low WBC hyperdiploidy trisomy 4, 7, 10 t(12;21)